The weirder thing is Firefox on ARM being detected as a HiSense TV. I did a cursory search to see if HiSense ever used Firefox OS on the TV and it doesn’t seem like it. Panasonic seemed to be the only manufacturer using it.
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 11 months ago
this prolly wasnt a bad decision early on... why pushing something to a population who cant utilize it... but shit changes fast, google.
Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It seems somewhat damning that Google’s own browser had a workaround for this, though
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 11 months ago
was it ignorance or malicious intent?
if it was a person, i would try and assume ignorance.. im not sure google the company deserves such respect
villainy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or it’s a company so fuckoff huge that one department (Chrome on Android) couldn’t get a bug report escalated in another department (YouTube). Eventually they just put in a UA workaround while the bug rots in a backlog somewhere. Common enterprise bullshit.
Or the Chrome on Android team didn’t even bother reporting the issue to YouTube and just threw in a cheap workaround. Also common enterprise bullshit.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Bingo. When I was a Chrome developer working on video stuff, we mostly treated YouTube like a separate company. Getting our stuff to work with theirs was a priority, but no more than, say, Netflix.